In a world where electronic production is increasingly drowning out the acoustic guitar in the arsenal of the singer-songwriter, Benjamin Francis Leftwich is unafraid to stick to the classics. Expansive and transcendent though his music may be, it's always rooted in those six strings and that hollow wooden body. Like that music itself, Leftwich's reasoning is beautifully simple, and yet carries a hefty backstory. "As long as that instrument is my tool in the writing process," he says, "it'll always have a place on the record."
Raised in the Yorkshire countryside in the North of England, Ben moved away two years ago, heading for Tottenham in London. "Yorkshire's beautiful," he says, "that scenery and the coast and the air will always inspire my music, but I don't have to be there. I lived it and breathed it for a while."